DEniSE SiLVA

artist, curator + storyteller

painter + printmaker | OG blogger | transmuting + creating | elevating the ancestors | art to uplift the collective vibrations + remind us of our cosmic roots | currently residing on Cahuilla, Tongva, Serrano + Luiseño land

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Creating [art] will always be about liberation. Liberation from any thing or ideology that does not produce love + truth. Liberation from the mundane, liberation from fear, liberation from this world that often feels like a dream we’re trying to escape.⁣

When you are creating you are communing with the divine.⁣

Embodying the Great Divine Mother + birthing an idea into existence has become a place of power and sacredness in my life. 

It has become the open door for my soul. ⁣

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the grandmothers

A community art offering for us all.

When the grandmothers from the four directions speak, a new time is coming.

–ancient prophecy

The intention of this mural is to honor and elevate the indigenous people of the Inland Empire, represented in the form of four grandmothers from following four tribes: Tongva, Cahuilla, Serrano + Luiseño, respectfully. We look to them as we protect our diverse cultures and steward our land, our medicine, our languages and ceremonial ways to nurture our children and our community. 

May the four grandmothers serve as a reminder for all whose land they are standing on, to step with mindfulness, to step with care. The grandmothers will also serve as spiritual guardians for those who respect the divine feminine and Mother Earth, our oldest ancestor. 

The Grandmothers can be experienced at the Riverside Main Library 3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside CA 92501
words from the ancient heartspace
  • Soul Retrieval

    Soul Retrieval, giclee, 2023
    Many religious, patriarchal, settler colonial systems have caused much harm in my life, resulting in soul loss. Fragmented and in pieces, I spent many moons disassociated from my indigenous spirit, feeling trapped in sunken places…
  • Indigenous Futurism at The Cheech

    Note: We recognize Anishinaabe author and professor Grace Dillon’s creation and use of the term Indigenous Futurism as a movement that intersects with technology and imagines a past where European colonization of Indigenous lands did…
  • The Journey

    I’m going to keep it a buck with yawl and admit having my work show at The Cheech Museum for felt like a really far, far away dream back in 2017. I was navigating my…
  • High Priestess

    Innerspace by Pearmama is all about our inner worlds, our visions, dreams + deeply held truths we uncover all on our own by Pearmama.
    On embodiment + being . To be one thing and then to become another. ⁣The more I lean into my essence⁣my authentic self⁣my essence that is namelessformlesseternal⁣the more I lean into it, into my own…
  • Libations

    Teardrops on my face, it's like teardrops become waterfalls by the time they reach my laces My eyelids is like levees but my tear ducts is like glaciers As I contemplate creation, the salt that…
  • Divine Knowledge

    In 2002 I was playing mad scientist — making herbal salves, infusions, diy shampoos, tinctures, goat milk baby formula and lavender butt wipes in my kitchen. All with four wild little boys under the age…
  • Innerspace

    Pearmama-innerspace-solo-art-show-2022
    Halfway through 2021, as I was feeling my way thru life post-pandemic, I began dreaming and preparing for my first solo art exhibit in my own hood at Pain Sugar Gallery. Fritz Aragon, the owner…
  • Corn Sister

    Art created to raise positive vibrations by Pearmama.
    For many years I was consistently writing and blogging on Pearmama. Then nearly ten years ago, Instagram got my full attention -- I began sharing in this space less and less. But I feel led…
  • Transmission

    Innerspace by Pearmama is all about our inner worlds, our visions, dreams + deeply held truths we uncover all on our own by Pearmama.
    Winter brought an asthma flare-up and with it, anxiety.  Obviously, not being able to breathe freely is anxiety-inducing (especially in a pandemic) and I’ve been healing with all the natural things. Eucalyptus, mullein, ginger, garlic +…
  • Grounding

    Art created to raise positive vibrations by Pearmama.
    I finally realized that always being described as ⁣easy-going⁣flexible ⁣full of “patience” and⁣oh, she just goes with the flow⁣was simply a trauma response from childhood. ⁣⁣It bled into all of my relationships. ⁣⁣Releasing shame, forgiving…
  • the act of remembering

    Art created to raise positive vibrations by Pearmama.
    I’ve been remembering.⁣Remembering when I was fully happy, fully myself, fully held. I used to play in the backyard of our little house in San Diego. The trees and grass swaying around me, the birds…
  • Wise woman

    Art created to raise positive vibrations by Pearmama.
    Men and their patriarchal systems (capitalism, church, government) did what they could to destroy the indigenous Wise Woman of the New World. The ones who healed with herbs, flowers and roots. The mothers, the birthworkers,…
  • Rituals

    One thing about me is I’m always going to get my feelings hurt because I’m sensitive as shit and this world ain’t the place for sensitive people. ⁣⁣I have dark days. Because of my connection…
  • Shelter in Place

        It's March 26, 2020. It feels like humanity has been given an amazing opportunity to change its ways, for this generation and generations to come. We should not be eager for life to…
  • I am another you

    I’ve been holding this Mayan saying close to my heart since last year: 𝗜𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗸’𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗮 𝗞’𝗶𝗻. I am another you. You are another me. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ It speaks of our oneness as people, our oneness…
  • New Earth tings

    Am I the only one who feels like we're at the edge of something cataclysmic, like we are ushering in a new timeline? I watched an intense IG live back in January. It was said…
  • Remembering who I am

    It feels like that dream you have where you wake up breathless and happy. When my son was nine, he woke up one morning exceptionally hyped (not a new occurrence with Diego) and giddy, going…

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